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Under The Volcano

Under The Volcano

Original name: Pod Wulkanem
English name: Under The Volcano
Year: 2024
Run time: 105 minutes
Language: Ukrainian, Spanish, English, Russian, German, Wolof
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Poland
Director: Damian Kocur
Producers: Mikolaj Lizut, Agnieszka Jastrzębska
Cast: Sofiia Berezovska, Roman Lutskyi, Anastasiia Karpienko, Fedir Pugachov, Mike Mensah
Screenplay: Damian Kocur, Marta Konarzewsk
Cinematographer: Nikita Kuzmienko
Editor: Alan Zejer
Sound Designer: Serhii Avdieiev
Costume Designer: Magdalena Sekrecka, Agata Piesiewicz
Production Designer: Aleksandra Markowska
Production Company: Lizart Film
World Sales: Salaud Morisset

Festivals:

  • Toronto IFF 2024

Director’s Selected Filmography:

  • 2024 Under the Volcano
  • 2023 As It Was (short)
  • 2022 Bread and Salt
  • 2020 Beyond Is The Day (short)

Director's Biography:

Damian Kocur

Director, scriptwriter, and cinematographer, Damian Kocur is a doctoral student at the Łódź Film School. He is the author of several internationally awarded short films. His debut feature film Bread and Salt (2022) was awarded the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti competition at the Venice Film Festival 2022, Cairo IFF, Antalya IFF, Cottbus Film Festival, and many more. His last short film As It Was was nominated for Palme d'Or at Cannes 2023.

Synopsis:

A Ukrainian family is spending the last day of their holiday on the island of Tenerife. Overnight the tourists become refugees.